Wire-screen holder.



No. 838,400. BATENTED DEC. 11, 1906.

' A. E. GRIFFIN.

WIRE SCREEN HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 1a, 1906.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 11, 1906.

Application filed September 18, 1905. Serial No. 278,974-

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALLEN E. GRIFFIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oberlin, in the county of Lorain and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VVire-Screen Holders; and I do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in wire-screen holders; and the improvement consists in the construction and arrangement of parts substantially as shown and described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

My improved holder is designed to hold numerous rolls of wire-screen cloth of different widths and is adapted to set upon a merchants store-counter, where it is conspicuously displayed and conveniently located to unIoll and cut strips of cloth from the rolls at either side of the holder. The wire-cloth comes to the merchant in rolls, and my main object is to provide a simple construction for conveniently mounting each roll upon the holder and for unrolling the cloth as it may be needed, and whereby the wire-cloth will always remain in perfect condition until the last portion is removed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an end elevation of the holder, showing two rolls of wire-cloth thereon, and Fig. 2 is a front view of the holder with several of the carrying and feed rollers for the cloth-rolls broken away to more clearly disclose the construction of the holder-frame. Fig. 3 is a perspective view, enlarged, of a portion of the holder-frame and one pair of carrying and feed rollers for the cloth-rolls and the supporting-brackets for the rollers.

Referring to the construction of my improved holder in detail, I provide a simple and light main frame A, consisting of two inclined end supports 2, rigidly connected together at different elevations by cross-pieces 3. Convenience and economy of space generally require that the holder be placed at the extreme end of a store-counter or against a show-case thereon, and to meet these requirements and also permit cloth to be unrolled from rolls 0 upon either side of main frame A, I prefer and find it advantageous to rotatably mount main frame A upon a centrally-arranged support B, and whereby the unrolling, measuring, and cutting of the their ends, throug which post 5 and its extremity 6 project, and the weight of the frame and all it carries is supported'to rotate upon shoulders 7 and 8, respectively, of post 5 and base 4. i

Rolls C are reinovably mounted upon rollers 9, and each roll is further supported when in place upon main frame A by a feed-roller 10, upon which it is adapted to rest and wherewith it is rotated and the wire-cloth unwound and fed upon the counter. Rollers 9 and 10 have headed 'trunnions or end pins 11, adapted to rest in open bearings 12 at the end of separate bracket members 13 and 14, respectively, and which members are mounted upon opposite sides of end supports 2.

Bracket 14 is a light 0 en casting secured by a single screw or be t 15 to both crosspiece 3 and end support 2 and has an open curved lip or socketed keeper 16 abutting a ainst the face of support 2, and within w iich pivot-lug 17 of member 13 is rotatably and detachably held. Bracket member 13 is a separate piece, but is permanently connected with bracket 14 by its headed lug 17, Fig. 3, when the two members are assembled and fastened in place by bolt 15. A single piece of spring-wire 18 has its ends 19 and 20 bent at substantially right angles to-its main stem 21. and at right angles to each other. End 19 is inserted within hole 22, Fig. 3, in cross-piece 3, and end 20 lies parallel with and passes through an opening 23,

within bracket member 13 and bears down upon its upper face, and whereby the torsional strain upon the main stem serves to hold rollers 9 and 10 in place within their bearings either with or without roll C. With one exception each of the different sets of rollers and their bracket and spring supports are identical in construction. Preliminary to a description of this difference in construction as stated, it will be noted that the longest and heaviest roll C is at the top of the holder directly over the center and in line with frame A, and whereby frame A is held balanced to rotate freely as against other rolls O of lesser size and weight, which are arranged. at either side of said frame. To

tore'st in Said socket portion, and a spring and rollers for said members.

'2. In a Wire-screen holder, a main frame I cb'nsisting 'of end supports'and cross-pieces,

brackets mounted upon the sides of said sup- 20 ports comprising separate members pivotally connected and having open bearings at their ends, in combination With a spring wire bent at its ends and secured to each of said crosspieces and said pivoted members, and rollers journaled in the open bearings of said bracket members.

3. In a Wire-screen holder, a main frame consisting of end supports and connecting cross-pieces at different elevations, a bracket mounted upon said supports and bridgi g each cross-piece, and a bolt jointly securing said bracket and cross-piece together, in combination With rollers removably mounted upon said bracket.

In testimony whereof I sign this specifica- 3 5 1 tion in the presence of two Witnesses.

ALLEN E. GRIFFIN.

Witnesses:

C. A. SELL, R. B. MosERfi 

